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With neovim's cult following I figured it was only a matter of time before somebody made a similar rewrite for Emacs, even if it does smell of vibe-coding based on the README.

I don't see any notes in the README about alternative scripting engines, elisp was always the main thing that turned me off from emacs. Does anybody know if they plan to add something like Lua?

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Emacs-ng embeds JavaScript or TypeScript or something and a web engine for UI. But then I really don't see the point. You're just about halfway to Visual Studio Code, so why not just use that?

what's wrong with elisp? The runtime is really well integrated in Emacs! Note: AI is good at writing all lips dialects!

Oh I'm just not a lisp fan, and with it being a bespoke language for Emacs it has the same issue as VimScript: you have to learn a language just for configuring your editor. With something like Lua, it's simple to learn and I can use that knowledge for things other than just configuring my editor.

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